Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
Front and Spine; Plate VII: Dustman
This is a wonderful book, depicting fifty different social types of the 1800s. From The Sovereign to a Farmer’s Boy; a Judge to a Gipsy (spelt Gipsey in this antiquarian tome). Full of glorious hand-coloured aquatint plates and a facing page of accompanying textual history, it depicts a huge range of social types and customs.